The below message is about the birthday of Indic wikipedias and the birthday of Malayalam wikipedia is on
December 21. The first edit in Malayalam wikipedia had happened on
2002-December-21 which means Malayalam wikipedia will celebrate 10th anniversary in 2012.
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From:
Shiju Alex <shiju@wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:04 PM
Subject: Birthday of Indic language wikipedias
To: Wikimedia India Community list <
wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Indic wikipedians
One of the aspects that was raised during the discussions with almost all Indic language wiki communities was the need to build existing communities, motivate existing community members, attract new community members by increasing awareness of projects and communities, and to celebrate all the possible occasions.
I have a suggestion that can contribute to all of these in some manner. The suggestion is to celebrate the anniversaries of Indic language wikipedias. And as you might agree, the first edit date of a wiki is the best anniversary that a community can celebrate. I have collected information for the birthdays of each Indic Wikipedia. This is the day on which the first edit happened on the respective language wikipedia. (The Indian Standard Time is used while recording the date and time).
I am listing those days below for your reference,
This list is available in meta also.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages#State_of_Indic_Language_Projects
I recommend that we use these anniversary dates to do the following
- Organize a small wikiconfernce or some other major event for the respective language wikipedia
- Organize community meetups to celebrate this
- Coincide community events around these meetups (such as outreach sessions, photo events, or launching specific WikiProjects)
- Invite press to these meetups and use different platforms to spread word about respective language wikipedia.
From the above table we can see that Assamese is the first Indic language wikipedia, and 4 Indic language wikipedias will celebrate 10th anniversary this year (2012). :) So it is time to get prepared for the celebration.
Happy Birthday Celebrations!
Regards,
Shiju Alex
India Programs of Wikimedia Foundation